Kozuka with Scene from Dôjôji

Description On the left of the kozuka is a man on the beach running from a woman in the water whose lower half has transformed into a dragon. This scene is drawn from the Dôjôji engi emaki, in which a jealous woman turns into a dragon as she chases a monk.

Provenance Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Inscription] 紋栄乗; [Transliteration] Mon Eijô; [Translation] Design by Eijô; [Signature] 光晃; [Translation] Mitsuaki (kao)

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters